School: Druim Muc (roll number 12861)
- Location:
- Corderrybane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Chuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 048
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- (continued from previous page)half living, and a tail wagging?
A dog with its head in a pot.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat. You many guess for ever, but you couldn't guess that?
A pipe.
Patch upon patch, without any stitches. Riddle me that, and I'll buy you a pair of breeches?
A cabbage.
What goes round the wood, and round the wood, and never gets into the wood?
The bark of the tree.
Which is the easiest way from Dover to France?
Stroke out the d and you are over at once.
Which part of a cow is over the ditch first? Her breath.
The more you take from it, the bigger it gets?
A hole.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Carraghar
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corderryduff, Co. Monaghan
